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玛雅人信奉许多神。 The Maya believed in many gods. | ||
玛雅古籍是玛雅人的文字记录。 A codex is a Mayan written record. | ||
玛雅人是古代世界最早的占星师(也是天文学家)之一。 The Mayans were one of the foremost astrologers (and astronomers) of the ancient world. | ||
玛雅历史上有八位神灵，四男四女，被奠为全体玛雅人的祖先。 There were eight mythological beings, four women and four men, who are the ancestors of all the Maya people. | ||
由于玛雅人是出色的天文学家，有人认为他们还将这些金字塔建筑用作天文观象台。 Since they were excellent astronomers, some think that they also used their pyramid structures as observatories. | ||
在科巴市，玛雅人围绕着一个湖泊修建堤坝，以提高水位，使供水更加稳定可靠。 At the city of Coba the Maya built dikes around a lake in order to raise its level and make their water supply more reliable. | ||
玛雅人认为他们祖先基本上是从玉米进化而来的，由黄玉米与白玉米面团做成的。 The Maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough. | ||
在半岛北部，海拔足够低，因此古玛雅人能够经由被称为竖井的深层排水口或深洞探及地下水位。 In the northern peninsula the elevation is sufficiently low that the ancient Maya were able to reach the water table at deep sinkholes called cenotes, or at deep caves. | ||
尤卡坦半岛失去的文明古遗址奇琴伊察，一座由神秘玛雅人建造的金字塔隐现在破云而出的阳光下。 A pyramid built by the mysterious Maya looms against sunburst clouds in Chichén Itzá, a postclassic site of the lost civilization on the Yucatán Peninsula. | ||
从遗留的花粉和草木灰可看出距今2000年前生活在那里的玛雅人还在那里种植玉米，虽然种植方式还处在刀耕火种的原始方式，但那里毕竟还有土地。可是在随后的几百年里，这片土地已成了永久性的洪涝之地。 Pollen and ash remains show that 2000 years ago the Mayans were growing maize with slash-and-burn agriculture in some areas that over the course of later centuries became permanently flooded wetlands. | ||
